Since May, the "May Day" holiday superimposed on the peak sales season of household appliances, coupled with the implementation of the State Council's "Action Plan for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Trade-in" in various places, major stores have ushered in the upsurge of "trade-in" of household appliances, so how to use the old household appliances that have been replaced?
Policy promotions and superimposed discounts on home appliance sales to welcome the peak season
In Shanghai, consumers who buy 16 categories of first-class energy-efficient household appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, smoke stoves, and computers will receive a 10% discount on the transaction price, and the maximum subsidy amount will not exceed 1,000 yuan. Since the implementation of the subsidy policy, the sales of green and smart goods in the city's stores have increased by 200% month-on-month.
Miss Wang, a citizen of Shanghai: There are government subsidies, there are replacement subsidies, and then the old ones are exchanged for the new, and the air conditioners are much cheaper after the discount.
The seller provides a one-stop service of "receiving the old and sending the new".
In addition to taking out "real money", major merchants and e-commerce platforms have also worked the convenience of "trade-in", in addition to providing one-stop service for receiving and sending new, some can also "trade in the old" across categories.
Ms. Gu, a citizen of Shanghai: The most troublesome thing is where to put our old things, we have no way out, and we have to call people to come, and no one will accept them, right? Collect the old ones in the morning and send the new ones in the afternoon, and the handover will be completed in one day, and we can use them.
The recyclables transfer station is equipped with a recycling platform to solve the difficulty of recycling
At present, Shanghai has built an electronic waste recycling trading network with sellers as the main body, and many communities have also built trading platforms for some scattered household appliance recycling needs. If residents want to sell idle household appliances, the "errand boy" will come to pick up the goods and send them to the recyclables transfer station for cleaning, disinfection, repair and maintenance, and then put them on the shelves for buyers to choose. In the transfer station, there are also maintenance masters who are responsible for helping residents with repairs.
Aunt Zhang, a citizen of Shanghai: With such a platform, I feel very good that we ordinary people can increase our income.
Liu Min, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce: Entering the summer is the peak of green home appliance replacement. We will further carry out the Neighborhood Life Festival and organize the trade-in activities of household appliances to the community, so as to bring one-stop trade-in services to the public, and at the same time provide them with better repair and maintenance services.
Scientific dismantling and reuse of waste electrical appliances
In addition to the second-hand trading for refurbishment, other waste electrical appliances will be pulled to environmental recycling companies and sent to different demolition lines for screw removal, classification, rust removal and other treatments, while the dismantling of air conditioners requires the extraction of refrigerant, and these appliances are finally dismantled into different materials such as iron, copper, aluminum, and waste plastics.
Chu Yongyi, head of the environmental protection company: For example, the washing machine may have been used for more than ten or twenty years, and the motor generally does not have much value for reuse.
The person in charge of the enterprise told reporters that the government is promoting the trade-in of consumer goods at the same time, but also promoting large-scale recycling, with the continuous advancement of the trade-in policy, more and more waste household appliances and household goods will enter the standardized recycling and dismantling and utilization channels.
Car "trade-in" Where do scrapped cars go?
According to the national policy, scrapping the fuel passenger cars with emission standards of China III and below or new energy passenger vehicles registered before April 30, 2018, and purchasing new passenger cars that meet the energy-saving requirements of individual consumers can enjoy a one-time fixed subsidy. So what will happen to scrapped cars?
In Yichang, Hubei Province, a recycling and dismantling company, the reporter saw that through more than 10 processes such as oil extraction and interior dismantling, in less than 20 minutes, the tires, seats and other parts of a waste car were placed in the storage box by category. The person in charge of the enterprise told reporters that if the scrap car is sold according to scrap steel, it can only be sold for about 2,000 yuan per ton, and after fine dismantling, the value of each part will double.
Yu Hua, executive director of Hubei Yichang Scrapped Vehicle Recycling and Dismantling Co., Ltd.: Like a copper water tank is a very good conductor, if it is sold as scrap copper, it can reach 30,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan a ton.
At present, the mainland has entered the peak period of car trade-in, according to the relevant departments, for every 10 million scrapped cars, 10.35 million tons of steel and 750,000 tons of non-ferrous metals can be recycled. It is precisely because of this huge opportunity that Hubei has accelerated the construction of a circular industrial chain from recycling to dismantling, regeneration, and then to utilization.
In this new energy vehicle integrated recycling industrial park, the reporter saw that the waste power battery was transformed into bags of black battery powder, which was put into the pulping tank to produce lithium carbonate and iron phosphate, which became the main raw materials of lithium batteries.
Wang Hao, General Manager of Hubei Yichang Bangpu Integrated Recycling Industrial Park: At present, the lithium recycling rate has reached more than 91%, and the comprehensive recovery rate of nickel, cobalt and manganese has reached 99.6%, and iron, copper, aluminum, electrolyte, graphite and other resources can also be recycled to achieve green environmental protection.
(Source: CCTV News Client)